VIDEO: Osborne family Christmas lights shine for last time at Disney World

FILE — Jennings Osborne's Christmas lights are displayed at Disney MGM Studios in Orlando Fla. in this 1995 file photo.
FILE — Jennings Osborne's Christmas lights are displayed at Disney MGM Studios in Orlando Fla. in this 1995 file photo.

An annual holiday-light spectacle at Walt Disney World donated by Arkansas' Osborne family in the 1990s lit up the Florida theme park for the last time Wednesday night, according to Inside the Magic.

The website, which largely covers news about Disney parks, posted a video on YouTube shortly after the farewell performance, showing a portion of Disney's Hollywood Studios illuminated by the millions of multicolored lights.

After 20 years on display, the "dancing lights" were synchronized at their close to the theme song from Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club.

Since its move from Little Rock to Lake Buena Vista near Orlando in 1995, the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights has been a staple at Walt Disney World, entertaining the masses around Christmastime.

That migration followed a contentious debate at the then-home of Jennings and Mitzi Osborne on Cantrell Road in Little Rock over the appropriateness and scale of the Christmas lights. The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled in 1995 that the light display be shut down, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported.

The Walt Disney Co. said in September that it would pull the plug on the Osborne display in favor of a themed project based around the company's Star Wars and Toy Story franchises.

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